Overview

Note: The SmartDownload version is not compatible with Windows Vista™.
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Save time, work faster and be more productive at work, school or home with the trusted, award-winning expertise of Mavis Beacon! Purchasing Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing provides training solutions for: Employment Agencies Middle School and High School Students (Preparing the next generation for the marketplace) Excellent resource for improving employee productivity Home or Home Office use Small Business and Corporations

Key Features

Let the #1 name in typing for 12 straight years guide your typing tutorials! Mavis Beacon will monitor your progress, flag your weak spots and offer challenging lessons to help you continue improving your keyboarding skills. • Exercise your typing fingers with more than 221 practice lessons and 103 custom lessons! • Enjoy 14 entertaining arcade-style games that make practicing fun! • Enhanced user interface is compatible with widescreen laptops and leaves the desktop more accessible even while the program is running. • Make your learning even more efficient by customizing lessons to fit your needs. • Download lessons to your Palm Pilot for easy portable practice sessions! • Jazz up your lessons by importing your own MP3 files to listen to while you practice! • Straighten up your keyboarding skills by correcting your posture and physical alignment with ergonomic evaluation videos. Don’t waste valuable time hunting and pecking your way around the keyboard. Type better, email faster and work smarter with Mavis Beacon at your side!

Features for Kids and Teens

Keyboarding skills have never been more important for students. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing has many features that help young typists stay motivated! Play 14 Arcade-Style Games Select lessons from text from favorite books and stories such as Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, and Dracula Set user profile for Kids or Teen Practice text messaging — GR8 k/b SKLZ — and emoticons ;) Practice HTML coding Listen to your own favorite MP3s while you type "Instruction is geared to age and goals, adapts to skills shown and keeps students on task." — Houston Chronicle

System Requirements

The SmartDownload version is not compatible with Windows Vista™.

Download Requirements:
Internet Connection: DSL, Cable, T1, or higher
Dial-Up Modems are not compatible

Windows® PC Requirements:
Windows® 98/Me/2000/XP
450 MHz Pentium® III processor or faster
64 MB RAM for Windows® 98/Me
128 MB RAM for Windows® 2000/XP
16X CD-ROM drive
360 MB free hard disk space*
16-bit color monitor
800 x 600 Resolution
Windows® - compatible sound card
Windows® - compatible mouse

Optional: Internet access
Optional: A color printer with 300 dpi or better recommended

*Full install of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Deluxe requires at least 550MB of free hard disk space.

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